What Did You Do With Your Commando Today?

Ho-hum, another brunch run. Norton behaved for about 125 miles. I saw a red tailed hawk. LOTS of motorcycles on the road, with a lot more younger riders. Pleasant weather. Who could ask for more?

My long term project bike took a huge leap forward today with the fitting of the engine and gearbox, it was all harder and heavier than I remembered, but I got there in the end, not bad seeing as I only have one good arm at the moment! This bike is called 'The T'urd' mostly because it was the third commando I'd bought since moving onto dry land but also because its been a pile of poo to build!!!

Shep57 said:

My long term project bike took a huge leap forward today with the fitting of the engine and gearbox, it was all harder and heavier than I remembered, but I got there in the end, not bad seeing as I only have one good arm at the moment! This bike is called 'The T'urd' mostly because it was the third commando I'd bought since moving onto dry land but also because its been a pile of poo to build!!!

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Don't forget the horn!

Shep57 said:

My long term project bike took a huge leap forward today with the fitting of the engine and gearbox, it was all harder and heavier than I remembered, but I got there in the end, not bad seeing as I only have one good arm at the moment! This bike is called 'The T'urd' mostly because it was the third commando I'd bought since moving onto dry land but also because its been a pile of poo to build!!!

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Lookin’ good. A huge leap forward like this can do wonders for one’s motivation… strike while the iron is hot !!

Shep57 said:

My long term project bike took a huge leap forward today with the fitting of the engine and gearbox, it was all harder and heavier than I remembered, but I got there in the end, not bad seeing as I only have one good arm at the moment! This bike is called 'The T'urd' mostly because it was the third commando I'd bought since moving onto dry land but also because its been a pile of poo to build!!!

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I haven't got a musical bone in my body, but at college I was in a band called "the Gut Bucket Tree and a Turd" (Donny Davis, Peter McCabe, James Murray & me)
I played jewish harp. The "Turd" was James Murray, because he couldn't play anything.
Our repertoire was 2 songs: King of the Road & Side by Side.

Sorry for the derail but... you started it!

Your bike looks good BTW!!!

BERT said:

Don't forget the horn!

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Yup... Now's a good time...

Started reassemblings on the street in the spring sunshine with many compliments ( Cool Bike ! ) .
Went to reassemble the complex MK3 primary and noticed all 4 outrigger support studs were loose .
Unscrewed them , cleaned the threads with degreaser , then a bit of brake cleaner to all threads , then a bit of Motoseal Ultimate gasket Grey to the crankcase end stud threads and screwed them back in hard with vice grips on the shafts . Tomorrow I go to buy Blue Loctite and Loctite 510 for the primary . A new 9/16 socket too , old one is worn out .